Evasão e permanência na EJA: por um trabalho de qualidade na gestão de uma escola da rede municipal de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

This work aims to discuss the dropout and retention in the young people and adults education (EJA) of students from a Belo Horizonte public school. It also aims to analyze how school management can contribute to the identification of factors that lead to students dropout, and how school management can increase the index of permanence of EJA students. This is a case study of a school which offers EJA elementary school since 2002. This institution has searched for quality work in EJA. However, the dropout has been one of its main challenges. This study is justified by the school's specific need to realize how far it can influence to increase the index of students' permanence in the institution and what actions can be implemented in order for this to happen. Understanding how this problem occurs will help the school to propose actions and setting it's responsibility in reducing dropout. The theoretical basis is supported by the establishment of EJA as a public policy and by the need to define what constitutes quality in this type of education. The methodology used was the case study, with the following instruments: interviews, document analysis, literature research and participant observation. The data collected and its analysis according to the theoretical framework is the basis for the intervention plan. The plan was based, primarily, on management's performance for: mobilization and strengthening of the team work; reducing dropout and provide systematic means of communication in a work attentive to the students’ needs.